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UNITED STATES (North and Central America)
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Defamation
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Parody or pastiche
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Expands expression
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The national evangelical Christian leader, Reverend Jerry Falwell, took his case against Hustler magazine to the US Supreme Court accusing them of intentional infliction of emotional distress after they published a parody of an advertisement suggesting that Falwell’s first sexual experience occurred with his mother in an outhouse. The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals ruling stating that public figures and public officials could not recover for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress by reason of publications unless the publication contained a false statement of fact which was made with ‘actual malice'.
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